US1325894A - Cigar-lighter - Google Patents

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CHARLES FREDERICK LABSEN, F GHICAGO, ILLINOIS..

' CIGAR-LIGHTER.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23, 1919.

Application led November 2, 1918. Serial No. 260,833.

To all 'whom t may concern Be "it known that I, CHARLES F REDERIGK LAnsEN, a citizen of the United States residin at Chicago, in the county of (look and .tate of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Cigar-Lighter, of which the following is a specication.

'lhe device forming the subject matter of this application is a lighter adapted to be carried in the pocket for the purpose of igniting cigars and adapted to be used in other ways under circumstances which call for the rapid production of a flame. The invention aims to provide a simple device, wherein, by the removal 'of-a cap from a casing, a striker will eoact with a pyrophoric element. It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to 'enhance the .utility of, devices ofy that kind to which the invention appertains. But one form of the invention is shown as an illustration, but, of course, a mechanic, within the scope ofthe skill which he might be expected to possess may work changes in the particular form sh View of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

ln the vdrawings:Fig'ure 1 is a side elevation; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section; Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 3--3 of Fig. 2. i

v'llhe numeral 1 marks a tubular casin having a circumscribing stop bead 2.

cap .3 is mounted on the open end of the,

casing 1 and carries a longitudinally dispose-d trough-shaped holder 4, wherein isI secured a correspondingly elongated` pyrophoric element 5.4 A striker 6 forms a part of the invention and, preferably, consists of a spring tongue extended longitudinally of the casing 1, one end of the striker being secured at 11 to the casing, the striker being oset as at 12, and terminating in an inwardly projecting fingeri7, located beyond the open end of the casing and sharpened .to present an ed e 8 which is ressed yieldingly against t e pyrophoric element 5,.

since the striker 6 is resilient. It is to be the outer or workin face of the pyrophoric Y element 5. The fue -holding means may be of any desired sort, but a wick 9 in. the casing 1, having a receiving recess 10 in its own, within the purmounted on the casing outer end, will answer the pur ose. A.

liquid fuel is employed and gaso ene may l be used to advantage.

When the cap 3 is pulled oif the casing 1v by a right-line movement, the edge 8 of the striker 6 coperates-with the pyrophoric element 5 and produces a spark which ignites the fuel carried by the wick 9. Since the pyrophoric element 5 and the striker 6 arelocated, respectively, on the outsidev of the cap 3 and the casing 1, the pyrophoric yelement and the striker are shielded from the fuel and will not be soiled thereby, it being difficult or impossible to produce a spark, if the parts alluded to aresoiledwith fuel. Because the n er 7 of thestriker -bears yieldingly against the pyrophoric element 5, the striker aids in holding the cap 3 on the casing 1. The stop bead 2 limits the sliding movement of the'cap 3 upon the casing l, and, consequently,the nger 7 always rests on the outer` surface of the pyrophoric element 5 and does not snap down on the end of the pyrophoric element when the cap is inplace. Therefore, it is never necessary to prize out the striker6, before the cap 3 can be pulled oil' Athe casing 1. Since the side walls of the holder l project as at 14, slightl beyond the outer surfaceof the pyrop oric ,element 5 the finger 6 will not slip 0E the pyrophoric element, should a slight rotary com onent enter into the movement which pro uces a withdrawal of the cap 3 from the casing 1. The thumb or nger of the `operator may be'pressed against the striker 6, so'as to increase` the pressure with which the finger 7 bears against the pyrophoric element 5. This operation may be resorted to at any time, but, ordinarily, the resiliency of the striker 6 will be suiiicient to produce a spark when the finger 7 co er ates with the pyrophoric element. ow

ever, should the striker 6 lose some of its resiliency, 'then' the fact that the striker mag be thumb-pressed, is of importance.

avmg thus described the invention,

what is'claimed is A pocket li hter comprising` as coper-. casing and a cap ating parts, a el-holdin Y fg r right-line sli ing movement and free yseparable from the casing, one 'of said coperating parts being 'provided with a pyrophoric element, and the moved from the casing,

Q mesme other'of `said coperating parts bein pro the is rethe lighter .being characterized by the fact that the pyrophoric element and the striker are located vided with a striker coacting wit pyrophoric element when the cap on the outside of the respective parts yvhereby' they are carried, the strikerbeing 1n the form of a resilient member bearing upon the pyrophoric element to aid in hold- 10 in the cap on the casing.

testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflxed my signature in the presence of two witnesses. A

CHARLES FREDERICK LARSEN. Witnesses:

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A. C. COOKE.

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